Attaching means for box lids



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R. W. MANEVAL ATTACHING MEANS FOR BOX LIDS Filed June 19, 1926 INVENTOR. PEXNV. MA/VEVAL A TTORNEY.

Patented Nov. 8, rear.

U rr ATTACHING MEANS FOR. BOX LIDS.

Application filed June 19, 1926. Serial N0.1117,111.

My invention relates to an attaching means for box lids.

The object of my invention is to provide anattaching means that will fasten the lid firmly to the box without the use of tools.

A further object of my invention is to provide an attaching means that tends to strengthen the box.

A still further obj ectof my invention is to provide an attaching means eliminating the driving of nails and removal of same, both of which cause unusual of the contents of the box.

A still further object of my invention is to provide an attaching means preferably for egg crates.

A still further object of my invention is to provide a simple and effective means to hold the lid on a box in such a way as not to damage the material thereof, whereby a repeated use may be had.

These and other objects will hereinafter be more fully explained.

deferring to the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a box showing the application of the attaching means.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged end view of the device.

Fig. 3 is a top View of the device.

Fig. t is an inverted or bottom view of Fig. 3.

The mechanism herein disclosed functioning as a box lid attaching means is preferably applied to egg crates, and by which means undue jar of the contents thereof is eliminated by the non-usage of nails. I do not confine the device to be used on egg crates alone as the same would be found valuable in crates for glass j ars, canned fruit or other commodities of like character where heavy strokes from a hammer may prove disastrous; and furthermore a lid may be securely fastened in very much less tim than the former way of nailing. The time required for the removal is equally shortened and the lid may be used many times as heretofore stated which is further economy.

In Fig. 1, 2 is a box having a lid 3, the said box being constructed as an egg crate having cleats 4 and 4 on the ends thereof. The said cleats being placed to bind the members of the end together and simultaneously afiording a better nailing edge for the bottom and the top.

With my newly invented attaching means, the nailing of the lid is eliminated, but the cleat is employed as hereinafter described. v The attaching means consists of a strip ofmetal 5 being bent to a right angle as shown at A, and having a plurality of V-shaped cuts 6 distributed along the plane thereof. The said cuts when turned downward as shown in Fig. 2 function as spurs to be forced into the lid to prevent sliding therefrom. 4 V J Along the opposite edgeof the member 5 is a series of teeth 7 which are bent at right angles as shown at B, and the points thereof 7 having a return bend as shown at C in 'Figs. 2 and at; the object of which is that the points will engage snugly between the cleat 4 and the end of the box as shown at D in Figs. 1 and 2. The position of the cleat, the lid and the'box are shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2.

The mechanism herein disclosed is prefer ably made of sheet metal, the gauge of which will be equal tothe tension required for se eurely attaching the lid to the box. At the same time resiliency is preferred so that the member extending over the top of the lid will tension firmly thereto as the spurs enter the wood. Note that the spurs angle toward the end of the box so that an outward thrust by a stroke on the edge as shown at E in Fig. 1 would tend to imbed the spurs more firmly in the wood preventing an out ward rocking of the structure releasing it from its function.

The plane of the structure having the spurs formed therein is of suficient width that 'a thin pointed instrument may enter between the edge thereof and the lid causing itto spring upward, by which means the spurs may be withdrawn, and the attaching means rocked outward to disengagement In other words suflicient leverage is acquired by the edge extending over the lid to a liberal distance, and the spurs being centrally positioned, renders the easy removal thereof by the application of a similar instrument as above mentioned.

The points of the teeth imbedding into or back of the cleat is a feature that will prevent the attaching means simultaneously with the spurs from sliding longitudinally.

Such modifications maybe employed as lie within the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is I 1. In an attaching means for box lids, in

vcombination with a box having cleats on the ends thereof andv a loosely positioned lid 7 thereon, a metal structure having a right angle bend longitudinally to engage the full Width of the lid, a plurality of spurs spaced along one leg of the struetureto engage in' the lid, a plurality of teeth laterally extending from the opposite vedge of the structure to engage With the lower edge of the cleat as the rocking point for the strip When applied.

2. In an attaching means for box lids, in combination with a box havmg cleats on the plane of the leg functioning as spurs and be ing integral with the strip, a plurality of vteeth on the opposite edge of the strip, the

points of the teeth having a bend to engage at the joint between 'thecleats and the boX, all as, and for the purpose described.

REX W. MANEVAL. 

